First TGB game - billiards
by Steve Miles · in Torque Game Builder · 11/02/2006 (9:03 pm) · 4 replies
I was always waiting for the billiards demo, but after the release of Rack'em Up Road Trip I figured I should try my hand at developing one. Day one down, and I have some graphics, balls I can thrown around on the table, and a pool cue. Next up, I need to create the pockets (balls just bounce around in a box right now), the pool cue movement and shooting logic, and some scoring mechanism.
My goal is to build a script-only game and see how far I can go. It's evident the rolling balls are the biggest issue and eventually I'm going to try some DTS objects and see if I can some spinning going. Also, sinking the balls in the pocket may be a challenge. It would be cool to get some angle guides in there as well...I'm shooting for something like this: www.miniclip.com/games/deluxe-pool/en/ and will probably post the final game in TDN as a tutorial.
My goal is to build a script-only game and see how far I can go. It's evident the rolling balls are the biggest issue and eventually I'm going to try some DTS objects and see if I can some spinning going. Also, sinking the balls in the pocket may be a challenge. It would be cool to get some angle guides in there as well...I'm shooting for something like this: www.miniclip.com/games/deluxe-pool/en/ and will probably post the final game in TDN as a tutorial.
#2
11/03/2006 (9:14 am)
Awesome stuff!! Keep posting in this thread (or blogs) with your progress. Very nice of you to offer as a tutorial on TDN when done. 
#3
Good work. :)
11/03/2006 (3:53 pm)
You can go pretty far with script. I've actually done probably TOO much in script for my present project. But it's all running nicely still. Good work. :)
#4
I was wondering if you got any further on your pool game project, more specifically I was wondering if you addressed the angle guide and if so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction on how you accomplished that.
thank you
10/31/2011 (1:29 pm)
Hey steve,I was wondering if you got any further on your pool game project, more specifically I was wondering if you addressed the angle guide and if so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction on how you accomplished that.
thank you
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